I bought the Soulful Strings’ ‘Magical Christmas’ album (recommended itt) & it is delightful. Love!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 December 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
^yep, one of the very best
Here is my Spotify Christmas playlist for this year. The usual mix of new and not so new. At 45 songs, it’s a bit longer than usual. There seem to be a LOT more new seasonal recordings this year compared with the norm. Also, there were quite a few finds from the People’s Pop polls on Twitter (just finished) that I had to squeeze in.
Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4054OsQgPWQejHoBtxJsOa?si=JwfloeTsSLWWjSXItV2MzQ
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Mi Burrito Sabanero - originally from Venezuela - is very popular in latinamerican countries and has the plus of being a christmas song that you can dance to.
Get to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36074Q1G7U
Also if you’d rather dance to it “banda” style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKNQudGnLuo
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 24 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Thanks, that one's new to me! I haven't really dug into Spanish-language Christmas apart from all the Fania Christmas albums and some Celia Cruz.
I see Calexico cover Mi Burrito Sabanero on their new Christmas album/I see Calexico have a new Christmas album/it's kind of boring
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Spanish language Christmas, just came to say ¡Feliz Vanidad!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Or even ¡Felisa me muero!
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueRg0H1_Jo
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 25 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
this is the onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgtgDE253s
― Spottie, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
The Specials - a message to you rudy
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
are you confusing that with Do Nothing? (check the jumpers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGDdXg1o-Q
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
hmm....different context same name. it's Rudy 24/7, especially on christmas.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I heard this lovely little song on this year's holiday episode of Sound Opinions. The artist is Allan Hull, who was in 70s folk-rock band called Lindisfarne that I'd never heard of, though this song was from a posthumous 1996 solo album (Hull died in '95).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSQEMmWh9E
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
S: François-Auguste Gevaert harmonisation of "Les anges dans nos campagnes"/"Angels We Have Heard on High"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGYcz5oSFQ
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
There are a couple of the Starbucks Christmas comps that get a lot of play in our house this time of year. Some of the more enjoyable tracks:
Louis Armstrong with Benny Carter and his Orchestra - Christmas Night in HarlemThe Roches - Good King WenceslasCyndi Lauper & Norah Jones - Home for the Holidays
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Christmas songs are terrible dreck for the most part.I did make a Spotify Playlist of Christmas Songs that Don't Suck that highlights the exceptions.
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― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
Yikes, thank didn't work!
This should: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v?si=a46f84052874454c
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Nice one two punch at the beginning!
― Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 December 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Does anyone have a link to, I guess, a “blues/jazz” playlist… like what I would hear growing up on the radio in Washington DC? The kind of thing when you hear five great versions of “Merry Christmas Baby” in the course of a few hours, interspersed with jazz Xmas tunes, etc.
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Friday, 24 December 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ry_YaXss4
Big Christmas in chimney and in rest of house
― saer, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
This sounded good tonight:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012rgj
Late Junction-y - Claire M Singer, Laura Cannell, Nils Frahm etc ...
― djh, Friday, 24 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
Smithsonian Folkways playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1🕸
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 25 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
My Xmas 2021 playlist. Very late this year (too busy ensuring we could all get together this year, Covid-free, to give this much attention). So, rather hastily thrown together last night, then road tested at lunchtime, then tweaked a bit. I think it passes muster now.
Usual mix of old and brand new, with the emphasis on songs/versions that are new to me. Season's greetings to all ILXers.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bKrVlYDJERlJzNWoRvNF3?si=0445d2bf46bf4045
― Jeff W, Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link